Word: limits
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...they deserve support. We have brought home many Americans, and intend to bring home more, from the throes of a tragic war. By standing firm, this Administration placed America in the role of mediator rather than of intruder during the crisis in Jordan. We are negotiating with Russia to limit strategic arms production. At home, we have taken in hand the difficult, unpopular, but necessary task of halting inflation. We have proposed major reforms in welfare, Selective Service and revenue sharing. We want to do more-much more...
Unusual Risk. The Russians refused to let American officials see the men for five days, thereby violating the two-year-old U.S.-Soviet consular treaty, which specifies that access must be provided within a four-day limit. Then they disregarded the treaty a second time by denying further visits until early this week. Moscow filed a harsh complaint with the State Department, linking the incident with the Soviet Union's longstanding objections to the presence of U.S. military bases near its borders...
Under it, the U.S. and the Soviet Union would place an upper limit on the total number of their strategic weapons systems. Each side would be free to choose its own mix within that limit...
Imposed Time Limit. The chief prod for solving court congestion may well be the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a speedy trial. So far, federal courts have found nothing unconstitutional about delays of a year and sometimes more. In a pending case, however, the nine judges of a federal appeals court are being asked by New York City, among other interested parties, to define the speedy-trial right-for the first time-by setting a six-month limit between arrest and trial. Under the proposed rule, a defendant could request that the charges be dropped after the deadline unless...
...idea, of course, is that such a limit would force the courts to speed up -or else provoke public wrath when accused criminals go free. Whether trial deadlines should be defined by federal courts and enforced as a constitutional right is debatable. It may well be preferable for state legislatures to enact statutes setting the deadlines-as in Illinois and California, where defendants are now supposed to be tried within four and two months respectively. But if other states fail to follow suit, the reformers say, then a constitutional rule for speedy trial may be the only way to waken...